Unlike Tom Wolfe or Gay Talese, for instance, I almost never try to reconstruct a story.

" Hans-Heinrich Eggebrecht goes as far as to reconstruct Bach's putative intentions as an expression of Lutheran thought, imagining Bach to be saying, " I am identified with the tonic and it is my desire to reach it .... Like you I am human.

I wish I could reconstruct the odd appeal of his personality, recall how restrained he was, modest, and beautifully timid, yet always full of pure, almost unintentional joy.

When a guest ( s ) or someone they talk to on the phone has written a book, Tim Lovejoy used announce, " I can't read very well, and neither can Helen or any of the crew, but Neil's a good reader, so we had him reconstruct the best bits ", which Neil duly did, often exaggerating for comic effect.

Only minor fragments remain of the original cathedral ( which is sometimes called ‘ chrobrowska ’ after Bolesław I the Brave ) and despite extensive archeological work it has proved impossible to reconstruct its exterior.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Tsar Alexander I ordered architect Osip Bove to reconstruct parts of the city which had been destroyed by French troops.

For example, consider the following sentences: " I eat ", " I am eating ", " I have eaten ", and " I have been eating ".

Two important aspects of a concise language are as follows: First, the most common words ( e. g., " a ", " the ", " I ") should be shorter than less common words ( e. g., " roundabout ", " generation ", " mediocre ",) so that sentences will not be too long.

* The earliest such reference occurs in 1589 when Thomas Nashe in his introduction to Robert Greene's Menaphon implies the existence of an early Hamlet: " English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good sentences, as Blood is a begger, and so forth ; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches.

As summarized by philosopher John Searle, de Saussure established that ' I understand the sentence " the cat is on the mat " the way I do because I know how it would relate to an indefinite — indeed infinite — set of other sentences, " the dog is on the mat ," " the cat is on the couch ," etc.

Wittgenstein responded to Schlick, commenting, "... I cannot imagine that Carnap should have so completely misunderstood the last sentences of the book and hence the fundamental conception of the entire book.

" From the first three sentences, I knew it was written for me ," she told the San Jose Mercury News.

A century or two after the work of Nirukta, the Greek scholar Plato wrote in the Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs and nouns ".

I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds ... Hitler had turned them inside out, as one turns a glove inside out, with a few sentences.

Chomsky's advisor, Zellig Harris, took transformations to be relations between sentences such as " I finally met this talkshow host you always detested " and simpler ( kernel ) sentences " I finally met this talkshow host " and " You always detested this talkshow host ".

Below are some possible trees for the two noun phrases the big house and big houses ( as in the sentences Here is the big house and I like big houses ).

Unfortunately, the above definition has the result that two sentences / sentence-tokens which have the same meaning and thus express the same proposition, could have different truth-values, e. g. " I am Spartacus " said by Spartacus and said by John Smith ; and e. g. " It is Wednesday " said on a Wednesday and on a Thursday.

She often ended her sentences with " I betcha!

While the essay was under consideration, Gödel's " On formally undecidable sentences of Principia Mathematica and related systems I " announced the impossibility of formalizing within a theory that theory's consistency proof.

In the Akkadian languages, the " predicative " ( also called the " permansive " or " stative ") is a set of pronominal inflections used to convert noun stems into effective sentences, so that the form šarrāku is a single word more or less equivalent to either of the sentences šarrum anāku " I am king " or šarratum anāku " I am queen ".

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.

I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.

I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.

I know this from my talks with him ''.

I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.